Export-hooked Germany rebalances economy - up to a point

By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - In 2010, France's then Finance Minister Christine Lagarde urged Germany to boost economic demand at home and help weaker euro zone states recover from the global crisis. Germany's trade and broader current account surpluses remain high, they say. A third group warns that if Germany gets too keen on consuming, rather than producing the high quality goods it has long sold to the world, it may not bounce back from future downturns in the way it did from the gl